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A week of focus on issues in education at whitehouse.gov

Creativity is not nearly so undervalued in the workplace and marketplace as it is in our systems of education. 

Do universities need the same kind of accountability as it was discovered businesses do? This is an issue students should be as concerned about as faculty. 

on the impact of tech in ed

Many of us take our clean and safe water for granted, but others aren't so fotunate. Glad to see we are taking great strides to make a difference; making a World Water Day is a great start.

This is actually most of the last paragraph of the post on this page but I thought it was a nice summary of the principles behind this group: "In our concluding remarks, we touched on the connection between the biased images seen in the film and cognitive bias. The media continually recreates stereotypes, which generate cognitive biases, which lead to real-world discrimination in our workplaces and schools. How can we break that cycle? Educating ourselves about cognitive bias is a good start."

This is a prety good clip showing the number of colledge people playing games, and what games they are playing.

This is a informitive video about e-learning.

Very insightful reflections on the challenges and benefits of having a code of ethics for a profession, in this case Anthropologists: "After three years spent seeking opinion and working on new guidelines, the American Anthropological Association is moving toward changes that some in the discipline fear will water down anthropologists' obligations to the people they study."

To change Wall Street, business schools should include ethical leadership as a core component of their curricula.

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (United States: Indiana University)http://php.indiana.edu/~appe/home.html The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics is committed to encouraging high quality interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching in practical and professional ethics by educators and practitioners who appreciate the theoretical and practical impacts of their subjects.

list of business ethics resources

This could be the answer to our economic and enviornmental problems.